Saturday 26^th November

The blog has been idle over the last week as we have been away ahead of Ann’s return to the UK with rather poor internet access for much of the time.

We were able to spend a very pleasant couple of nights away at Lake Mburo National Park. 

Sunset at Rwakobo Rock Lake Mburo

It is one of the few areas where you can walk safely as there are no Lions in the park (although there are supposed to be seventy Leopards!!) When you are able to walk like that you can get quite close to the animals especially the many Zebra and Impala and can much more easily see some of the amazing birds in the area. Even with the 6.30 am start it all adds up to a very memorable experience.

Zebra on our early morning walk

Red faced Barbet. A Lake Mburo special

Crowned Hornbill keeping his eye on us

Diederick Cuckoo. I had heard this in the past but never seen one

A Lizard Buzzard Another first

Black-Headed Weaver by Lake Mburo

One of the numerous Hippos at Lake Mburo

Ann left on Wednesday afternoon and arrived safely home the following morning after a fairly long Emirates flight. I finally made it back to Kagando on Thursday evening. We are both very grateful for safe travel over last couple of days or Journeying Mercies as they like to term it here!

Yesterday morning was spent on the wards catching up with what had been happening while we had been away.

A local prison inmate who successfully recovered from Cerebral Malaria with Samuel one of the most experienced nurses

In the afternoon I was able to number crunch some of the antibiotic resistance data from the lab at Bwera which I had been able to obtain a couple of weeks ago. It certainly confirms the data I collated a year ago but with over 480 specimen results now available, more than twice  the number I had last year, it helps to make the data rather more reliable. There does seem a gradual creep of increasing resistance to a number of the most commonly used antibiotics here which is somewhat worrying. The data also included some fresh information which will help guide the treatment of Typhoid, Dysentery and Cholera in the days ahead.